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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.6.17

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 6: Sutīkṣṇa’s hospitality. The ṛṣi offers heavenly worlds and a forest home, Rāma declines a long stay because hunting the resident deer would distress his host

In the sequence: Sutīkṣṇa invites them to remain in this very hermitage, supplied with roots and fruit and visited by fearless deer

3.6.17

imam āśramam āgamya mṛgasaṃghā mahāyaśāḥ
aṭitvā pratigacchanti lobhayitvākutobhayāḥ

Coming to this hermitage, O greatly glorious one, herds of deer roam about, tempt (us with their charm), and then go back, free from fear from any quarter.

Words: imam — this; āśramam — hermitage; āgamya — having come to; mṛgasaṃghā — herds of deer; mahāyaśāḥ — O greatly glorious one; aṭitvā — having roamed about; pratigacchanti — go back; lobhayitvākutobhayāḥ — having tempted (us), fearless from any quarter

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.